Crown imprint: 1774 books
by Lea Michele
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated in an illustrated book that’s part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide.
Lea Michele is one of the hardest working performers in show business. Whether...
She Wants It
Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
**New York Times Editors’ Choice **
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill’s parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create...
Michael Douglas
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywood’s most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot
Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become...
Spellbound by Beauty
Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
“The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.”
—Alfred Hitchcock
It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the beautiful, legendary and talented actresses he directed. And when he did, his remarks were mostly...
Mother American Night
My Life in Crazy Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate.
Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and...
Fatal Charms
And Other Tales of Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers...
Life Interrupted
The Unfinished Monologue
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
As the first decade of the new century was getting underway, Spalding Gray worried that the joy he’d finally found with his wife, stepdaughter, and two sons would fail to fuel his work as a theatrical monologist the way anxiety, conflict, doubt, and various crises once had. Before he got the chance...
Learning to Live Out Loud
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses
At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star,...
House of Nutter
The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion—and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film.
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From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an...
The Redgraves
A Family Epic
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The dramatic, poignant and revealing saga of the Redgraves, one of history's greatest families of actors.
For more than a century, the Redgraves have defined theater and film while captivating the public eye. Their history is a rich tapestry of singularly talented individuals whose influence...
Teaching the Pig to Dance
A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Fred Thompson has enjoyed a remarkable career in Hollywood and politics, but when he sat down to write a memoir about how he got to be the person he is, he discovered that his best stories all seemed to come out of the years he spent growing up in and around his hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee....
The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar**—**because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The...
Rush
Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration...
Patton, Montgomery, Rommel
Masters of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief commanders—three men who also happened to be the most compelling dramatis personae of World War II.
Beyond...